Beckoning of the Blood
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ISBN10: 1456441817
ISBN13: 9781456441814
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 13 2011
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781456441814
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 13 2011
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
For millennia, African communities have embraced the concept of adoption in its most basic form of preserved parental rights as well as other traditional remedies to couple's childlessness like polygyny and surrogacy. These concepts existed mostly within familiar families and close communities without any disruption of social order. With increased urbanization and attendant modernization of societies, legal adoptions have become rampant, as evidenced in Nollywood movies. Doris shines light on unregulated and uncoordinated adoptions, a social reality that governments turned over to churches and NGOs. At the same time, she weaves the traditional tenet about the potency of blood into the burning social issue. Her elegantly simple style, delightful dialogues, captivating characters, and carefully crafted, prompt-paced plots make Beckoning of the Blood a pleasing page turner.
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